Here is the line up with the new numbers

Formula 1® 2014-style is almost upon us, and if you thought you could track who’s gone where simply by checking out the numbers – think again!

One of the many changes for 2014, and perhaps one of the more curious, is that the governing body, the FIA, has abandoned the time-honoured practice of numbering the cars starting with #1 for the reigning World Champion and continuing in ascending order of the teams’ positions in the previous year’s Constructors World Championship.

Instead it’s open slather: the champ is still allowed to keep the #1 but everybody else can nominate his favourite number.